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Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:32 am
by General Paranoia
Two more for Belgium:-

Ironically America's favourites Winchester and Browning are owned by Herstal of Liege
(also NATO 7.62 mm and 5.56 mm cartridges were designed by the Belgian company)

Actually when it comes to providing guns to shoot people Belgium is right there at the top and has been since Victorian times. A large percentage of Wild West guns were cheap Belgian copies

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:18 pm
by An Absent Humphrey
They do a rather nice Christmas market in Bruges as well.

Belgian also kindly offers itself as a battlefield when Europe decides to have a bit of a ding-dong every now and then.

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:35 pm
by ---
Super Humphrey wrote:They do a rather nice Christmas market in Bruges as well.


"Maybe that's what hell is, the entire rest of eternity spent in fucking Bruges."

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:47 pm
by General Paranoia
Dags wrote:
Super Humphrey wrote:They do a rather nice Christmas market in Bruges as well.


"Maybe that's what hell is, the entire rest of eternity spent in fucking Bruges."


There's always a chance that Humph will fall off of the Belfry though

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 2:19 pm
by Goldwyrm
Woodwose wrote:Two more for Belgium:-

Ironically America's favourites Winchester and Browning are owned by Herstal of Liege
(also NATO 7.62 mm and 5.56 mm cartridges were designed by the Belgian company)

Actually when it comes to providing guns to shoot people Belgium is right there at the top and has been since Victorian times. A large percentage of Wild West guns were cheap Belgian copies


So Belgium is up to 5.
1. Good beer
2. Good Chocolate
3. Good Guns
4. Good Ammo
5. In Bruges

Sc0rcher and juiced cyclists don't cut it.

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 3:04 pm
by MartinR
Oh yes, outstanding guns from Belgium even if we had to 'Imperialise' the FN FAL into the L1A1.

One of Belgiums famous, if notorious, sons was of couse SS Obersturmbahnnfuhrer Leon Degrelle, one of the few non-Germans to be awarded the Kinghts Cross with Oak Leaves.

Cheers
Martin

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 3:50 pm
by General Paranoia
Goldwyrm wrote:
Woodwose wrote:Two more for Belgium:-

Ironically America's favourites Winchester and Browning are owned by Herstal of Liege
(also NATO 7.62 mm and 5.56 mm cartridges were designed by the Belgian company)

Actually when it comes to providing guns to shoot people Belgium is right there at the top and has been since Victorian times. A large percentage of Wild West guns were cheap Belgian copies


So Belgium is up to 5.
1. Good beer
2. Good Chocolate
3. Good Guns
4. Good Ammo
5. In Bruges

Sc0rcher and juiced cyclists don't cut it.


Tintin didn't make it to the final selection then?

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 3:57 pm
by An Absent Humphrey
Woodwose wrote:Tintin didn't make it to the final selection then?


No, and quite rightly so.
If we can't have ScOrcher on the list then we're not having that limp-wristed little Ian Hislop lookalike, Tintin, on it either.

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:23 pm
by Hastati
Adster wrote:
Hastati wrote:
Goldwyrm wrote:You surely mean Eurythmics.

Bronshtein wrote:10 Great things about Russia


Ok Commie. Now do Belgium without mentioning chocolate 10 times.


Beer
Frites
Tin-Tin
Jacques Brel
Waffles
Victor Horta
Lace
Adolphe Saxe
Lit motorways (once you drive on them you miss them when they are not there)
Boudin de Liege
Cuberdons
Sc0rcher


Cheat! Those last three aren't even real things!


They are real, and Sc0rcher was a freebie because my list goes up to 11 (shit, 12 actually).

Re: 10 Great Things about the Brits

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 6:17 pm
by Bronshtein
Hastati wrote:
Adster wrote:
Hastati wrote:Beer
Frites
Tin-Tin
Jacques Brel
Waffles
Victor Horta
Lace
Adolphe Saxe
Lit motorways (once you drive on them you miss them when they are not there)
Boudin de Liege
Cuberdons
Sc0rcher


Cheat! Those last three aren't even real things!


They are real, and Sc0rcher was a freebie because my list goes up to 11 (shit, 12 actually).

Wait a minute - Beer? Not exactly exclusive is it? Frites? They're just chips with mayonnaise.
I'd stick with the doped up cyclists myself - you beat Armstrong to it by decades.